Note-taking is never something anyone does for joy. Yet we do it to remember information and capture ideas—to facilitate learning. We’ve all sat in a classroom (or stood in front of it) and seen others frantically scribbling notes on the subject matter.
The problem with note-taking is that it doesn’t actually help us retain—or present—valuable information. We record pages and pages of notes, summarizing the subject matter, but not making much sense of it. (And as it